In March 2020 things changed, seismically, both at home and at work. As my 11 year old twins prepared for their first day of home school, I prepared to set off to a new kind of workplace. “What will you be doing at work today Mummy?’ ‘Well – it’s mostly about my ‘Director of […]
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Torn between two countries: On being an International Medical Fellow during a global pandemic (by Dr Revathy Krishnamurthy MD and Dr Archya Dasgupta MD))
The global healthcare system is currently facing an unprecedented challenge in the form of the COVID-19 pandemic, propelling medical workers into the frontlines. The personal lives and professional careers of medical students, residents, fellows, and staff have been altered in many ways and to different degrees, each gearing to assume elevated roles and responsibilities. The International […]
Stopping the tide of Covid 19 by lockdown: India (Dr. Manas Pratim Roy New Delhi)
Since December, 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid 19), originated from Wuhan, China, has rapidly spread across the globe, as evident by declaration of this latest threat by World Health Organization as pandemic in March, 2020. With exponential surge in morbidity and mortality, the world is witnessing the rampage by Covid 19. As on 19th April, […]
What makes Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) challenging compared to other Coronavirus pandemics? (by Sai Krishna Gudi))
Within no time, Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has emerged as an outbreak, then as an epidemic, and finally now as a pandemic. However, Coronavirus (CoV) is not the first-ever occurrence as it was initially discovered in the 1960s, and since then, several types of CoV were identified amongst which Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-CoV (SARS-CoV) and Middle […]
You ought to contribute a blog (Dr Philip Welsby)
You really ought to contribute a blogI have written about 100 papers and a lot of whimsical popular articles – the two not mutually exclusive because I used to challenge myself to smuggle in at least one humorous allusion into “proper papers.”On looking at my publication list I seem to have suffered from a lack […]
Beauty is the eye of the beholder.
efore the advent of photography artists were employed to illustrate classical facial appearances of medical conditions such as Down’s Syndrome. Some facial appearances like scars, cauliflower ears, and broken noses may suggest certain sports. Other attributes like smiling or frowning might suggest personality traits. Wearing of glasses might increase impressions of intelligence, ill performed or ill-advised […]
Coronavirus conundrums (Dr Philip D Welsby)
There is a lot of information out there and numerous contributions by official and unofficial organisations, never mind individual contributions. There are too many people who think their “single issue advice” should be followed. No one individual and this includes myself has the expertise required for management of all the complexities. Our government has the […]
El Greco by Dr Phil Welsby
El Greco the long and the tall of it Domenikos Theotokopoulos, or “The Greek”, absorbed an unusually wide variety of formal influences, from Byzantine icon painting to studies in Rome and Venice, yet he claimed to always draw “from life”, despite the striking distortions of angle and colour in his style. After experimenting with Renaissance […]
Diagnosis before treatment by Dr Philip Welsby
In the United Kingdom there is an unpredicted shortage of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). I t must have been unpredicted otherwise preventative actions would surely have occurred. So what went wrong? Traditional medical teaching is that ideally a diagnosis should precede any treatment and that a comprehensive diagnosis should comprise anatomical, functional and aetiological aspects. […]
Reflex reinforcement by Dr P Welsby
I disagree with the recommendation of Jendrassik’s manoeuvre (clenching the teeth or wringing the hands) to reinforce the reflexes as recently recommended in the British Medical Journal.1 These manoeuvres only allow two or three strikes before the patient becomes attuned. For reinforcement I found it useful to tell the patient to close their eyes and […]